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A New Horizon Dawning
New Horizons, September 25-October 20, 2005 is that last time. And as we tell you, we cannot miss recognizing what Ben & Jock have accomplished in almost 3 decades of New Horizons, and the standard they have set. A standard that will be integral to the shape of what is to come, and will carry on in the Come Alives, Reflections, and Beyond New Horizons courses that Ben & Jock will continue to lead. We deeply appreciate Ben & Jock’s willingness to include others and continuously engage with many possibilitiesin life and in particular in the sessions of New Horizons. It is the hallmark of their legacy. A legacy instilled within The Haven philosophy that simultaneously recognizes the past, engages the present and seeds the future. In 2006 we will introduce a revamped structure for what is currently contained within New Horizons. And this is the source of our excitement. To date, the continuous evolution of The Haven and our courses has been a direct result of connection, communication, curiosity and consideration involving as many people as wish to be involved. You have been an essential component in these conversations, and this is one thing that will never change. We look forward to your inputstay tuned! And for now, that is all in the future. Today is about celebrating New Horizons, September 25 to October 20, 2005. We invite you to be in touch and register to be part of what is sure to be a legendary 25 days! Honouring The Passion of Maria
We are not alone in our recognition and appreciation of the spirit of Maria Gomori. She was recently honoured by Avanta, the international organization founded by Virginia Satir, with the 2005 "Living Treasure Award" for her significant contributions through the teachings of Virginia Satir. Following is an excerpt from Ben and Jock’s congratulatory tribute to Maria that was read at the ceremony: Maria Gomori has a singular thirst for learning about life that seems to grow ever stronger with each passing year. She is a true scholar, delving without cease into studies of human nature. Her books show the breadth and depth of her understanding. Maria ranks among the best students we have ever encountered. She is an inspiration. People who meet her are struck with her forthrightness and her intense passion for life. Maria has lived a courageous life, enduring threats and chaos and change with equanimity and resolve. She is deeply honest Maria is always willing to face her own nature, and to acknowledge when she is in resistance. All this comes in an odd package of a wild-haired Hungarian octogenarian who possesses a childlike innocence and sense of play! Maria’s next course at The Haven is Faith: Living with Courage (Aug 25-28 with Carole Ames and Joann Cimbalo). A title and topic which somehow seems apropos! Many Ways to Heart Ways!
They have also written an article called “Heart Ways” which describes their ideas and the intention of the weekend course, written with the same unmistakeable charm and spirit we have experienced from John and Joseph since we met them! Take a moment to read and ponder You will find this article at the bottom of the on-line version of this newsletter at www.haven.ca/us/update/vol4/issue08.html. If you wish to connect with John and Joseph about the playshop, their email is listed at the end of the web page article. Faculty Faces
If you haven’t already, check out the course and his bio (which includes the development of Solution-Oriented Therapy and the foundation of Possibility and Inclusive Therapies, and more recently Brief Therapy). For more, go to his website at http://brieftherapy.com/ then registereither on line or call Morag and Renee toll free 877 247 9238 extension 234for a weekend we believe will live for years to come. There is an unmistakable energy at The Haven when course participants from Taiwan and China come for our Mandarin translated courses. This year, in addition to the Mandarin Mini-Phase, Donna Lee translated portions of Joann Peterson’s Anger Boundaries & Safety for an integrated group of Chinese and English speaking participants. We want to express our heartfelt thanks to everyone who joined this landmark course. Yet again, we are heartened with the simplicity of connection that is possible when people from all walks of life, cultures, and ways of being make room and open to each other. It is not always easy, and there is always much to learn and gain. There is always something up at The Haven, to stay informed visit our website www.haven.ca, email us at info@haven.ca or call us at 250 247-9211 and toll-free 1-877 247-9238. Take care, enjoy yourself, and each other, and be in touch soon.
---------------------------------------------------- HEART WAYS—a Heart-Look into our new Playshop/Workshop By Joseph Barry Martin, Ph.D. and John R. Ryan, M.E.S. Each of us is a soul, scientifically speaking. Since the beginning of Creation, your soul has been evolving for over 15 billion years within the Universe. According to the Buddha, the soul evolves through coming to Higher Consciousness during millions of human lifetimes and in-between lifetimes in the astral realms of the Unified Spirit Field. On planet Earth, the unique human experience has allowed individuals and collective humanity to evolve through many golden ages and dark ages, according to all world mythologies and spiritual science. We are just now coming out of a Kali Yuga or dark age. The celestial light is increasing greatly in this quadrant of the Milky Way galaxy during this present Dwapara Yuga and will continue to do so for thousands of years. The Bhagavad-Gita and other spiritual texts such as Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi claim that the soul evolves through karma and reincarnation, universal laws of cause and effect. During human sleep, which is one-third of our lifetime, the astral-emotional and causal-mental bodies leave the physical-biochemical and etheric-spirit bodies and travel in the Dreamtime to consider karmic release and healing for the coming day’s activities. Due to the fact that most people do not remember their dreams or work with them, most people remain asleep and ignorant of the purpose of the soul coming into the physicalwhich is to evolve into higher love, joy and meaningfulness. And to return to Source Light, the great Metagalactic Central Sun of the “Big Bang”, and be at home with the exquisite unity of “The Love You Are.” This is why Jung, Freud, Rank and Adler created the bases of modern psychology through the cornerstone of Dream Analysis. However, most still do not work their dreams to any depth, and so the soul remains asleep, stuck in materialist limbo. In this playshop-workshop, we combine all the relevant transpersonal psychological techniques that allow you to consciously connect with your soul-growth path. Modern theorists such as David Bohm, Rupert Sheldrake, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Paul Pearsall and others suggest that the soul resides inside the electromagnetic, neural and hormonal holographic heart within the human. We now know that our physical-spiritual heart-soul IS higher knowledge, wisdom and intelligence, both within and beyond time and space. Joseph and John’s simultaneous theoretical, research-oriented and clinical work for over 35 years has come to the same conclusions as the above authors. We have incorporated theoretically and methodologically the anthropological and historical knowledge of the “Heart’s Ways of Knowing and Being.” This includes cross-cultural, spiritual awareness from over 100,000 years of shamanic indigenous knowledge, ancient texts such as the Bhagavad-Gita, Vedas, Upanishads, Bible, Gnostic Gospels, Sufi Texts, Tibetan Books of the Dead and the Great Liberation,, Tao Te Ching, I Ching, Guru Granth Sahib, Kabbalistic Texts, Ancient Egyptian Texts, Mayan Texts, and Lemurian and Atlantean Texts. These theories and techniques have been compared and integrated with the various Medicines of Anthroposophy (Rudolf Steiner), Ayurveda, Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan and global First Nations. The cognitive awareness of the New Heart Energy Medicine Holographic Field is the first step in a person’s awareness to coming home to the “Heart Ways of Knowing and Being.” Most of us in our life focus primarily on the “doing-ness” of the intellect and will. So, in this playshop-workshop, we take these ancient and brilliant modern theories now emerging concerning the heart, and facilitate you through the further needed steps of making them experiential, grounded, centered, practicaland most significantlytransformational and transfigurational. Knowledge ‘about’ the heart is no good unless one ‘lives in’ the heart permanently from this moment forward. We will not discuss theory much; we instead explore the play, fun and joy of being love. Joseph Campbell, with whom Joseph studied, once said that given the choice between a lecture on heaven and going to and being in heaven, most people would choose the lecture. Which do you choose? As Campbell continues, “If you don’t get the experience of heavenly bliss right here and now, you won’t get it later when you die.” So making the decision to journey into the heart is the greatest choice you can make in your lifetime. And it’s a constant momentary choice. We coach you in the creative ways of keeping your heart open 24/7/365. Simply changing daily thoughts and behaviours, while focusing on doing, works from the outside of the soul in. This is like a seed touching the earth and being blown away the next moment. Journeying with the soul back home to Source connects you to your Love essence from the inside out. This is your soul taking root in the core of your life’s meaning and will have deep, lasting results years hence. Many people are turning to yoga now. Yogananda, along with countless other Spiritual Masters, confirms that through five years of daily practice of Kundalini Kriya Yoga experience, the soul will “burn off” one million years of karma, thus speeding up conscious evolution. The Heart Energy Medicine treatments we’ve developed ensure that our time together can allow you to “burn off” a great deal of karma within one weekend. It’s all in the ability to travel into the Light and Love of Source, play like an innocent child, and allow your soul to evolve and find its path and purpose for this lifeon all levels of your daily existence. Thus, this fun experiential series of cumulative techniques from Friday evening through to Sunday noon is structured so that you will have a series of actual, subjective astral-causal Journeys of profound transformational nature into the higher astral planes and the Source of “All That Is.” While your soul consciousness chooses to release karma and negative emotional patterns which are energetically stuck within your Four Energy Bodies, you simultaneously open to and receive the transfiguration of “Being the Light and Love” you are. SOAR like an eagle. That is, Surrender, Open, Allow, Release and Receive. Then you’ll be on your Heart Path of loving kindness, right service, and joy infinitely ever-expanding. Joy is the goal of the soul, love is the path that takes you there, and feelings are the healings. We hope to share the joy with you! We are happy to discuss and answer questions. Email us at josephmartin(at)shaw.ca
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Carole
Ames is dynamic, compassionate and direct. Her perceptive grasp
of human behaviour, together with her creative problem-solving skills is
a winning combination. She has earned degrees in both planning and
counselling, and with humour, creativity and integrity she has worked with
individuals, groups, businesses and government agencies to facilitate the
achievement of their goals. Carole's first career was as a professional
planner, including Director of Planning for the City of Yellowknife.
In the late 90’s Carole moved to Gabriola Island where she completed her
Diploma in Counselling at The Haven, then served as General Manager in
2000 and 2001. She created ‘
Catherine
Fallis is warm, caring and vital. She has over twenty years experience
working with individuals and groups as a Movement and Expressive Arts Therapist
in Vancouver. She studied Dance/Movement Therapy at the Naropa Institute
in Boulder, Colorado, and completed a PhD in movement therapy and spirituality
at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
Catherine’s work is inspired by her inquiry into the ways in which the
mysteries of both psyche and soul can be revealed in the organic movements
of our bodies. Her current passion is the exploration of how the often
unconscious movements of body and sprit can be integrated in consciousness,
and communicated through the written word. In her ‘
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